New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-14

demeanor on the arrival of the mounted police.
While the guards trotted eight abreast around the
Square, cheers went up accompanied by shouts:
Bravo, Marsham; we want free speech we
are all true Engshmcn, Irshmen and Scotch
men; We only want our legal rights as citizens
of London"
second circuit OF the Square by the guards
elected opposition from a mob of roughs in the
crowd. who shouted:
"Britons Shall not be ruled by lead and
bayonets."
RtFFIANS FORCED TO Run THE GAUNTLET.
Three groans were given for the Home Secretary.
The Guards Iatrolled the Square several times and
then turned into the ad accnt streets. They sue
ceedcd in awinG the roughs and in greatly thinning
out the crowd. At 8 o'clock the grcnadicrs
wheeled into the Square with bayOncts fixed
and with twenty rounds of ball cartridges in
their pouches. They accompanied by an
ambulance. They halted in front of the National
Gallery and opened into line. The mob was thus
caught between the lines of police and military,
and the roughs were COMPELLED to run the
gauntlet. They were FASTENED on their way by a
shove from one policeman, a cuff from another
and kick from third. Some of them showed
a disposition to maintain their ground, but the
soldiers brought their bayoncts to the charge"
position and the sight Of the cold steel quickly de-
cided them to retreat. The officers of the grena-
diers rushed to the front aud ordered their men
to replace their arms. and the soldiers
then contened themselves with pounding with
their rifles on the toes of the crowd. Boxing the
ears of the turbulent roughs with vigor seemed to
delight the policemen. The crowd now hooted the
military with energy equal to that with which
they had cheered them before
THE POLICE MAKE VIOLENT CHARGES.
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violent charges with their batons in de-
termined effort to clear the whole vicinity.
many points of winch had been crowded ell
the afternoon. In one charge tho whole window
OF an electrical shop fell with a crash. The
crowd asserted that the window was
broken by the hoofs OF some of the
poilcemen's horses. The police, however. assert
that bricks were thrown at the wlAdow. The loaf
ers made rush for the contents OF tho window
but the ponce recaptured many articles
and arrested the thieves a minute
later the window OF refreshmcnt
room was smashed il by the pressure of the crowd.
There were one or two similar in the course
of the charges. but b. o'clock there was no fear
of further trouble. At $50 o'clock the
whole force OF Life Guards again pstro ed
the square, and finally they dispersed COM
plctcy Some excitement was cauSed.at Whitehall
BY the victorious police marching with the capt
ured flags and banners. The mounted police and
Life Guards were now ordered in the direction of
the Parliament buildings the side streets being
coTdoned with constablcs to prevent ruSncs. Tins
move cleared Whitehall and Parliament sts and
the GuardS, with the exception of thc body
retained i'll Trafalgar Square, were enabled 10
return to their barracks by O'Clock.
Quletudo was somewhat restored,
though the square stl cordoled by
bodies Of police, which alternately relieved
each Other in order to Obtain mucn needed refresh
ment after standing III the same position ten hours
At 7:30 O'Clock Inc remaining Life Guards returned
to the barracks.